A teenaged suicide bomber struck a bus terminal in northwest Pakistan on Monday, killing seven people in the sixth bomb attack in as many days to strike the nuclear-armed country

A teenaged suicide bomber struck a bus terminal in northwest Pakistan on Monday, killing seven people in the sixth bomb attack in as many days to strike the nuclear-armed country, police said.
 
The bomb, apparently targeting an anti-Taliban militia leader, exploded in the small town of Jandol in the district of Lower Dir, 200 kilometres (125 miles) from the capital Islamabad. Pakistani troops fought a major offensive to expunge the Taliban from the area nearly two years ago.
  
Dir district police chief Saleem Marwat said seven civilians were killed and 18 wounded at the bus terminal, close to a car showroom, which was also damaged in the blast. "We have found the head of the bomber. He appears to be a teenager, a 15 to 16-year-old boy," Marwat said.

Doctor Wakil Khan, head of Lower Dir's main hospital, told AFP that 15 people had been wounded in the attack and most of them were in a critical condition.
  
The target of the suicide attack was Malik Mohammad Akbar, head of a lashkar or tribal militia set up by the government to fight Taliban militants, residents said. Police said he died in the blast.